Truth's slow-footed.

When a newspaper tells a lie about you, don't try to overtake it, tell another." He blinked with quizzical good-humour.

Rockwell could not resist the audacity.

"I don't believe you'd do it just the same," he retorted decisively, and laughing.
"I don't try the overtaking anyhow; I get something spectacular in my own favour to counteract the newspaper lie." "In what way ?" "For instance, if they said I couldn't ride a moke at a village steeplechase, I'd at once publish the fact that, with a jack-knife, I'd killed two pumas that were after me.

Both things would be lies, but the one would neutralize the other.